[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [cobalt-users] Am I being Robbed:? - IP's and Gigabytes
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Am I being Robbed:? - IP's and Gigabytes
- From: "Dylan Smith" <dyls@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Apr 12 02:43:28 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hi
> > So long as you have a credit card, it doesn't matter where your
dedicated
> > service provider is. If the UK doesn't offer you the right value, take
> your
> > business to a company in another country that does!
>
> Well, for network speed reasons it does matter a bit. It's not fun for an
> european user to telnet into an american server...
I disagree.
I regularly (as in all the time!) telnet from the US to a server in the UK.
Network latencies are such that it really is no big deal. The ping time is
only 130msec which is virtually unnoticable on a telnet session.